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Michael Kitchen stars as the charismatic Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, who fights his own battles on the homefront while WWII is raging across Europe. Plan of Attack April 1944. DS Milner’s investigation of a transportation fraud sets in motion a series of events that brings Foyle back to the force. As Hastings hosts an ecumenical conference on the morality of continued Allied bombing, Foyle probes the suspicious death of a young cartographer from the Air Ministry office. Broken Souls October 1944. At a psychiatric clinic treating troubled soldiers, the investigation of a doctor’s murder turns up no shortage of suspects among the patients and staff. It also complicates Foyle’s friendship with Dr. Josef Novak, the Polish refugee who heads the clinic. All Clear May 1945. As all of Britain awaits the formal announcement of the war’s end, Foyle reluctantly joins a committee preparing to keep public order during the celebration to come. But the end comes too soon for two men—one a stabbing victim, the other an apparent suicide.
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Foyle's War (2002)
74 min
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.